From: Mike '/m' 


Wow.  Since we've  moved over to Active Directory and Windows Domains, none
of the Software Engineers can access the Visual SourceUnSafe server.  But
that's nothing compared to what you've got to resolve.

Good luck...

 /m

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:22:36 -0500, "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote:

>Haven't had time to pick it back up yet. I've been up to my armpits in
>alligators migrating 23 internal people from one domain to another (they
>brought their computers with them), as well as dealing with 8 field people
>transferring from Notes to regular email.
>
>They had tried to use the Outlook for Notes connector, which worked, after a
>fashion, but worked like an IMAP/MAPI client, in that it left all the mail
>on the server, and just pulled headers, unless you read the mail.  The goal
>was to pull their entire notes mail down to get it into a PST.
>
>Well, Outlook doesn't put the mail in a PST, it puts it into an NST file
>using the Notes Connector, and once the Notes Server goes away, you can't
>connect, or read the email, especially if all your mail is still on the
>server.
>
>So, we've been battling that. Luckily, I got copies of all their NSF files,
>and by putting them on each persons local machine, they can fire up notes,
>and read the database of mail with no problems.  They can use it as an
>offline archive, while sending/receiveing with Outlook.
>
>I've also bought a copy of Notes2Outlook, that will extract each notes
>email, including attachments to MSG files, then will create a new PST file
>from those MSG files.  It even stops before it gets to the 2 gig file limit,
>so you don't end up with a PST that won't work.  There's an option to create
>an Outlook 2003 PST that can go over 2 gig.  Takes forever to do though, and
>you need Notes installed on the computer you're doing the conversions on.
>It has a batch mode, so you can create a csv file with path/filename.nsf,
>and path/filename.pst, and let it go to work crunching.
>
>We'll eventually get them all converted.

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